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EDUCATION BUILDINGS The gross expenditure for the year on school ' buildings, additions teachers' residences and the purchase of sites totalled £249,247, this sun. including £13,110 provided by the Consohdated Fund to meet the cost of minor works. Practically the whole of this expenditure was incurred m respect ol primary, secondary, and Native schools, and Child Welfare institutions. LANDS-IMPROVEMENT Most of the works formerly coming under this vote are now referred to under and River Control. The work during the year was confined to certain drainage works having important bearing on essential production, such as flax cultivation at Moutoa, and to the completion of other drainage and flood protection works already in hand at Ruawai, Naumai, and elsewhere. Sand-dune Reclamation.-No new work was undertaken, but maintenance and certain essential planting have been done at Helensville and Waikato Heads. Land-clearinq by Machinery.-This important work has been continued on a minor scale at Taumarunui, Ohakune, and near Tuatapere with very satisfactory results. Until more plant and skilled operators are available, the work cannot be greatly extended. LIGHTHOUSES The completion of radio-beacon stations, the electrification of lights, the provision of additional navigational aids, and general maintenance of existing plant have been carried out during the y . Owine to the diversion of the lighthouse steamer to other duties, it became necessary to effect improvers L the road access to several outlying stations to ensure accessibility to those stations at all times both for servicing the lights and for the transport of lightkeepers' stores. At some stations the eating have been improved by the provision of hot-water services, septic tanks, drainage, &c. PUBLIC BUILDINGS Agriculture —The extensive work involved in bringing up to date the layout at the Te Kauwhata llorlSto7station was completed during the year by the installation of the new distillation unit and more modern equipment for the processing of grapes. Improvements have been effected ale in the facilities for the staff at the Station. Justice —It has not been possible during the past year to undertake any new construction workon courthouses An endeavour has been made to keep existing buildings maintained in good order. An area of 417 acres required for farming operations at the Invercargill Borstal Institution has bee, Vr» e flfj S'tomcd necessary to vacate the prcsent M Borstal site at Mount Crawford Land was acquired in Takapu Road, Johnsonville, and a new Borstal Institute building ,s now in course Tf erection there. The new building ha. been designed to allow of the proper classification of inmates, and provision has been made for their useful occupation. Postal and Teleqraph.—During the year the following departmental kuildings were completed: post-office Indldings at Cronadun, Linton Military Camp, Lower Hutt, and Motueka ; residences at Hokitika, Plimmerton, Tauranga, Te Kuiti, Waipawa, and Westport; a store building and a g g, lvnilrlino- it, Whansarei * and a radio-telephone building at bedcion. AdditLTSe made to the post-office buildings at Ohura and Petone and the i •w, . nt Knitnia • and alterations were made to the chief post-office building at Napier, the i office building at Foxton, and the staff quarters at Awarua Radio and Musick Point Radio One buildin" and four sites which were no longer required were disposed of during the year. Nineteen sites and additional areas of land for departmental purposes were acquired, as also were six r 2 S t l( end°o f the'yeai' theVSk)whig buildings were in course of erection : post-offices at Kaitaia, 'IV TCii ti and Wanaka • residences at Featherston, F.tzroy, Foxton, Howick, Kaponga, Murchison, Id T t kuM a store' gaTge at Balclutha ; a radio receiving building, staff hostel, and seven residences at Makara. . . ~ , ~ Police-stations —In addition to four new police-stations erected at Oxford, Port Ahuriri, Cambridge, Feifding was completed. Additional land has been acquired at Petone and Hunterville, and also a site for a police-station at Omakau. Act, » the annual report of the Mn Highways Board for the year ended 31st March, 1944, is also submitted herewith, vide Append x E. g As reouSed bv subsection (2) of section 33 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 I submit witli statement the annual report of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council, covering the operations of the Council up to 31st March, 1944.
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